St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-02-03
THE LINCOLN BOOM.
The Chicago Tribune.

"The republican party has always
been party of sentiment and it rep
resents the sentimental part of the
American people. Its organization is
composed of thinkers and refOrmers,
the students and scholars, the educa-
tors and the workers, in all depart
ments of hnman progress and the ma
terial prosperity of the country. Its
policy has always been one of righting
national wrongs and abuses, of inau
gurating new schemes of reform, of
unfolding education, morals, progress,
and all that tends to intellectual ad-
vancement. There is no stronger SEN
timent in this party than affectiOnate
reverence for the name of it's first pres
ident, Abraham Lincoln. He had its
love and honor. His name has been
treasured with more tenderness, his
honestly patriotic record is more COM
mended, his face is more familiar in
the homes of the people than that of
any man but Washington. The peO-
pie have corresponding esteem of
his son. All of them have seen him.
They find that he resembles his honor
able father in his methods of life and
in the purity and honesty of his char
acter. They see that he has made an
excellent secretary of war. What more
natural than that the people should
talk this matter over among themselves
and ask the inevitable question, would
not he, also, make good president
and fill out with honor the remainder
of the second term, one month only OF
which his father had enjoyed when he
was shot down by murderer Sup
pose that Washington, or Jefferson, or
Jackson had left son as closely re-
sembling them as Robert T. Lincoln
resembles his father, does any one
imagine he would not have been tri-
umphantly elected by the people 7"
The Knoroiue Times.
Following the thread of the Tri-
bune's reasoning certain pertinent
questions become important to repub-
licans and present themselves to the
party for consideration. What repub-
lican in the land would think of voting
against the worthy and accomplished
son of Abraham Lincoln What other
republican in the United States could
the party nominate that wOnld so sure
ly and completely solidify the party
and unite every wing of the Organiza-
ton as that of Robert Il. Lincoln
What name as Il candidate can rally to
a man the cOlOred vote at the polls in
Mississippi in defiance of ballot-bOx
suffers and kuklux bludgeons, and
make her twenty or thirty Thousand
republican majority a reality and pO-
tential in the electoral college? What
other man can the party nominate,
who bears the name that alone would
make our southern democratic states
doubtful, as Senator Beck in his frank
ness once said Robert L. Lincoln cOuldP
1t is perhaps needless for us to add
that we think Mr.. LincOln's selection
by the national republican convention
of next year, as its standard bearer,
would be the signal for the rekindling
of the political fires of 1860, which
would, within twenty -four hours, blaze
with patriotic enthusiasm in every
state from the Atlantic to the Pacific,
and from the Lukes to the Gulf, and
result in November's victory. We be-
lieve that the republican party in the
voice of the popular will, if fully and
fairly expressed, has a majority in the
electoral college, and that any state
that the republicans cannot carry for
Robert L. Lincoln, cannot be carried
for any living republican, be he who
he may. Can SO much, in truth, be
said for any other republican